This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 105th St. & Ocean, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of December, 1931, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Minnie Barrett, Florence Edmonds, Edith Edmonds, Fannie M. Freeman, Mildred Davis, Hugh Lynn Cayce and C. W. Rosborough. Also M. L. Rosborough and M. L. Black.

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1. GC: You will have before you the healing group gathered here in this room. Because of our desire to carry on Thy Work in accordance with Thy Will, we seek at this time a clearer understanding of the healing forces and their interaction through us as members of this group. Please explain to us that which we need at this time in carrying forward this work.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group here, as a whole, as individuals. In seeking to be a channel of blessing to others through such a group, well that individually all self-condemnation be laid aside, that self be wholly free in that source of power as would bring hope, faith, confidence, and HEALING to those who seek through this channel to be made more aware of His love in their lives. Not in arrogance by any one; rather seek through meditation, singleness of purpose, to be guided in that channel in which each may BE a channel of blessing to those who seek.
3. In this manner may ye know the way; for, as has been given, "I go - and the WAY ye know." The manner in which each may know they are IN attune, is the ability to feel that consciousness of the sincere desire WITHIN to BE a blessing, A channel, to someone.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) [2124]: What is the name of my healer?
   (A) That name above every other name! As that name, named by self, brought healing in the physical self in an experience, so may self - by holding, attaining, gaining that consciousness of the indwelling and communion of that self-same Spirit - bring aid, bring help, bring hope and FAITH, to another.
6. (Q) In healing, is it not paramount to have the body in perfect physical condition?
   (A) One must raise self to that consciousness of a physical perfection in spirit, to give the proper attitude or concept to another. DOUBT never ACCOMPLISHED anything!
7. (Q) Will I ever be able to diagnose ailments, and what spirit will give this to me?
   (A) Will the body-consciousness intend or desire, that may BE a portion of the entity's work. This will be accomplished by a unison of cosmic or universal forces, as here. This may be raised in ANYONE that so CLEANSES their OWN physical consciousness, or raises the vibrations of their own physical bodies, TO that attunement that brings HEALINGS to others; for, as has been given, "Who healeth all thine infirmities? Who bringeth the hope, the abounding forces of love, in thine life?" As has been given, "Though I give my body to be burned and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Though I may be able to interpret, though I may prophesy, though I may BRING that faith so as to remove MOUNTAINS, and have not LOVE, it is NOTHING!" Then, first know what love meaneth, "for God so LOVED the world that He gave His Son, that we THROUGH Him might have life, and have it more abundantly. From the abundance of the heart the MOUTH speaketh." Thoughts ARE deeds, and as their currents run bring either those of MIRACLES or crimes. As He purged His own life, so may WE purge OUR lives that they may be one IN Him, and as He laid His hands on many, so may the healing FROM self be to many, wilt thou BELIEVE and ask in HIS name. BE thou, then, the sturdy, staunch guide TO many, as thou wert in days that were counted as but naught!
8. (Q) [993]: As a leader of prayer, what should I study to make myself approved unto Him?
   (A) Fourteenth and fifteenth of John. "In my Father's house are MANY mansions. I go TO the Father, and what ye ask in my name, believing, so shall it be UNTO thee." YE have believed, for YE have seen! BLESSED are they that BELIEVE who have NOT seen. YE KNOW the way; ye may guide others!
9. (Q) Might we, the healing group, receive a message at this time from the Master, how He would have us begin our work?
   (A) THIS message may be read, as was given by Him, in that as has JUST been given; for, "He that seeks through some other channel DENIES that thou art my beloved Son! Hear ye Him!"
10. (Q) There comes to me so often the desire for the group to tarry together as the Disciples did in the upper room. Is this coming from the subconscious mind, or is it a message for the group? Please explain.
    (A) As has been given, "Tarry ye one WITH another. Tarry ye, and ye shall be imbued with power from on high." In this the entity finds much of that as has been experienced in the associations of self with those who sought for that expression of love in a DEFINITE manner. So WOULD, SHOULD, the body, the entity, insist - and those who cannot may depart. REMEMBER, there were oft those not in the upper ROOM that WERE of the healing group, of the ministering group, of the preaching group, of the teaching group - yet all received that they sought for, and were WILLING TO be shown the way!
11. (Q) Please interpret my dream of Sunday afternoon, Oct. 25, 1931, in which someone came and asked for a healing. While healing, I was told to heal as Peter did. During the healing I experienced what I thought was the grip of death.
    (A) In this experience there comes to the entity that of the decided differentiation between that some people call destiny and that as making self ONE WITH the Father; for while Law is Love, Love IS Law - and as healing is the contradiction of MANY man made laws, and in line with, and contradictory to, laws that are universal, the last to be conquered is death itself. Overcome, even as HE overcame. [See also 281-7, Par. 17-A.] So the injunction, HEAL even as Peter, that "In HIS name may THIS be done. In HIS name give I thee that sought." He IS the law. He IS the destiny. He IS the love. Hence, this consciousness of His presence must be the basis of all healing; for "Be not afraid, it is I" must come TO the group, as they make their selves ONE in purpose.
12. (Q) [560]: Will the Forces please outline the form of letter that should be sent to those desiring our aid, that we may do things in decency and order?
    (A) There should be outlined that there must be the wholehearted cooperation upon the part of those desiring aid, and that in so far as their individual consciousness may be raised in Him, through the cooperative forces of the group as they pray WITH them, may receive that being sought. Their full name, their address, their periods of meditation, should be concordant with those seeking to aid; this also given, see? Then the group may name, or may call itself by that that seemeth to express that as is desired to be accomplished in the efforts of those seeking to be an aid for others, or the HELPFUL group, the AIDING group, the GLAD group, of WHATEVER body physically that the group represents - see?
13. (Q) Why do I feel a hesitancy in repeating, and pleading for one who has asked for aid? I feel I should ask in His name, believing it will be done.
    (A) Ask ONLY in His name, believing, and it SHALL be done! This an outcome, or the result of self's own development, and - as given in the beginning - let NO one come condemning THEMSELVES for that that is within them! but let no one come in arrogance as to that that's necessary for another to reach that SAME attunement! PHYSICALLY, there may be an illustration in this: Attunements on any of the radios may be SOMEWHERE NEAR the same point, but no two will EVER be in exact same ratio! for their POSITIONS alter that, even when sitting side by side! So, individual attuning their soul-consciousness to the divine within must attune according to their OWN development one in another! but CONDEMN NOT, that ye be not condemned! Find GOOD in all! If thou cannot speak well, speak not at all! - and think not at all! for thoughts ARE deeds. As ye act, let that gladness of purpose as may be ONE in all, be that that rules, or is guided by Him that rules. Rule not in the sense that "Here's a line and it must be hewed to, irrespective of consequences or of conditions!" for He is ALSO a God of mercy - MERCY - that makes us ALL akin, in that he that would have mercy shown MUST himself be merciful!
14. (Q) Being named and called to be a healer, in what way and manner will I be able to heal?
    (A) In the manner that, as those are CALLED, the self will be able to guard and guide as it is accomplished. Even as self chose to be the one as looked after detail, so in this be thou the one as looks after the LITTLE things, that will make it possible for the group to BE healers TO those that seek. As IS brought TO self that necessary for the ACCOMPLISHING OF this, so does HEALING arise. Here, let's analyze healing for the moment, to those that must consciously - as this body - see and reason, see a material demonstration, OCCASIONALLY at least! Each atomic force of a physical body is made up of its units of positive and negative forces, that brings it into a MATERIAL plane. These are of the ether, or atomic forces, being electrical in nature as they enter into a material basis, or become MATTER in its ability to take on or throw off. So, as a GROUP may raise the atomic vibrations that make for those positive forces as bring divine forces in action into a material plane, those that are destructive are broken down by the raising of that vibration! That's MATERIAL, see? This is DONE through CREATIVE Forces, which are God in manifestation! Hence, as self brings those LITTLE things necessary, as each is found to be necessary, for position, posture, time, period, place, name, understanding, STUDY each, and assist each in their respective sphere. So does the ENTITY BECOME the healer.
15. (Q) [69]: Please explain the message [281-1, Par. 5-A] given to me in the healing, when it says, "there are many considerations to be given in this entity's preparation for this particular phase of work, as the association of the individual, as an individual, with members of the group."
    (A) Just, MUCH as has been given may be applied in this direction. As the entity's development is, that there must be raised in each individual that consciousness of the indwelling, or - to put it in material manner - the SUPERSEDING OF the Christ Consciousness IN that matter that would be healed, whether by its injection by those that through cooperation raise such vibrations in an individual, or through that of one individual raising same in SELF. So, all these receive their consideration, as has been given - TO whom ye speak, HOW ye speak, where, when, and HOW - these MUST ALL BE considered, would one NOT become arrogant, would one NOT become self-centered, self-condemning. Self surrendering first, then raise the consciousness that will supersede, will overcome - for only in HIS name may the world and ITS environs be overcome; for, as HE overcame even death, so may YE in HIS name overcome the ills that the flesh is heir to, through its advent into a material world. "I am NOT of this world. YE are not of this world, if YE abide in me - but I may only be MANIFEST in the material world through thine OWN raising of that consciousness. As I abide in the Father, and ye abide in me, I in ye, ye in me, we may bring that to pass AS ye seek."
16. (Q) Am I doing my part to bring the promise, [281-1, Par. 5-A] "there will be a sign given, an emblem, of self's being raised to the consciousness of healing in the activities of self's own actions"?
    (A) Keep that promise as has COME to self, and keep in the way of COOPERATING with others.
17. (Q) In what manner shall I feel and see the Christ [281-1, Par. 5-A] in the present?
    (A) "Lo, it is I - be not afraid."
18. (Q) Please help me to get the understanding.
    (A) As ye seek, as ye believe - as ye know - comes the understanding.
19. (Q) Why is it that at times my meditation seems unsatisfactory?
    (A) For ye are STILL in the flesh. WHY did He, "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" Even when the world was being overcome, the flesh continued to rebel; for, "When I WOULD do good, EVIL is present with me - but, Though I take the wings and fly to the utmost parts of the heavens, Thou art there; Though I make my bed in hell, Thou art there." So, when doubt and fear comes, close thine SENSES to the MATERIAL things and LOSE thineself IN Him. Not that ye shall not be joyous in the things that partake of the pleasures even of life; for so did He - but keep thine consciousness ever alert, ready and willing to be the channel that will make known His love, and HE will speak with thee!
20. (Q) [2112]: Could Carrie Everett, Colonial Ave., Norfolk, be healed through me? and in what way?
    (A) By gaining first that sincere desire on the part OF Carrie Everett TO be, WANT to BE, healed! Then there may be raised within self that that will overcome those destructive forces that are EATING at the vitals of the physical body.
21. (Q) In what way?
    (A) By first - there MUST be the DESIRE, that can only come within self.
22. (Q) I have four ways of healing. Which shall I use?
    (A) There must first be the DESIRE on the part OF Carrie Everett to be healed! You cannot create them, no matter what thou hast! GOD cannot save a man that would NOT be saved!
23. (Q) [295]: Might I have a message from the Master?
    (A) Would thou set thine self down and not CONDEMN thine self, nor find those of questionings in self of others, thou MAYEST receive, even as when, "Thou hast chosen the better part, Mary, for thou savorest of the WORDS of LIFE, rather than those of the flesh." KEEP that! Let not those things that hinder through the desires of the flesh, hinder in the Way.
24. We are through.

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BACKGROUND

1. Subject of 281-3 - "Glad Helpers."

REPORTS

1. 1/24/32 See 262-10, Par. 23-A giving prayer to be sent to individuals seeking aid through the prayer group.
2. 2/07/32 See 262-11, Par. 8-A in re methods of healing.

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